Dictation is a great tool for testing students’ retention of the spelling words they have been learning because if they can spell the words correctly in a situation of cognitive overload (remembering multiple words, forming and spacing letters and words … Continued
Lupo et al. (2019) examined whether easy or challenging versions of texts, when accompanied by different types of instructional support, improved adolescents’ reading comprehension. Two hundred and ninety-three ninth-grade students were provided with 12 weeks of intervention in which teachers … Continued
Most ‘traditional’ spelling games are based on students remembering a word based on its visual appearance rather than on understanding how the word has been encoded. In addition, typically the worst spellers are removed from the game the quickest and … Continued
Concept maps are graphic organisers or visual representations of knowledge. They are also referred to as mind maps, spider maps or idea webs. Information is linked whereby key concepts are linked to other related concepts via directional arrows and descriptive … Continued
The suffixes ‘-ant’ and ‘-ent’ are added to words to form a noun to indicate a ‘person who’ or ‘thing that’ (e.g., an ‘assistant’ is a person who assists, a ‘president’ is a person who presides). They are also added … Continued